Pigeons?

[Model 457]

While I was standing in the hotel parking lot the other morning waiting for my crew to pick me up, some ol boy with Texas plates on his truck towing a long flatbed trailer with these plastic bins pulled up.

He asked me how much the hotel charges. I told him what I was paying a night. While chatting, I noticed what looked like a couple of big nets, the kind used in cartoons to catch escaped loonies, sticking out of the bed of his truck. I asked him what he was fixin to catch. He told me he was catching pigeons and that when the bins were "fulled up", he was taking them back to Texas to sell.

My question is who the heck catches and sells pigeons? Moreover, who buys them and why? I can't imagine anyone buying pigeons to eat.

Was he just pulling my leg or have any of you heard of such a thing?

 

[HayesGreener]

Targets for live bird shoots and retriever training. I have purchased quite a few for training dogs

 

[Belt Fed]

Squab is a delicacy in some places, just not in my neck of da woods. bet you feelers figured an ole dumb hillbilly in Arkysaw didn't know such a werd. Ain't nobody here eatin them disease carryin flyin rats

 

[NMEDGE]

He can come here and catch all those filthy creatures. They can be a real pain in the a..

 

[Model 457]

He can come here and catch all those filthy creatures. They can be a real pain in the a..

I thought the same thing about San Francisco. On the Embarcadero, there's a million of those filthy things.

 

[Shibadog]

Squab is a delicacy in some places, just not in my neck of da woods. bet you feelers figured an ole dumb hillbilly in Arkysaw didn't know such a werd. Ain't nobody here eatin them disease carryin flyin rats

Yup-sums it up. Flying rats for sure,

 

[Pitdogg2]

You know Pigeons are just a fancy Dove, right?

 

[HayesGreener]

Squab with Foie Gras and cherries. Remember to extend your little finger on your wine glass.

 

[Wirenut]

Send them to Chicago, it is a sanctuary city they will be protected.

 

[HayesGreener]

Send them to Chicago, it is a sanctuary city they will be protected.

I would love to see a few thousand of them on that new presidential library

 

[Wirenut]

 

[Belt Fed]

Who ya gonna call? BIRDBUSTERS.

 

[3L120]

Sky rats, pure and simple. The city ones are diseased and filthy. Couldn’t pay me enough to touch one, let alone stick a fork on one. Stupidest birds in creation. In L.A. they would nest on the floor of parking structures, making chow for the rats and possum.

 

[Retired Bum]

I would love to see a few thousand of them on that new presidential library

That you can't enter without proper ID...

 

[Retired Bum]

Get a couple or more Hawks and watch the rats scramble and scream!